Is there a way in Java to determine if a path is valid without attempting to create a file?

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Path class introduced in Java 7 adds new alternatives, like the following:

/**
 * <pre>
 * Checks if a string is a valid path.
 * Null safe.
 *  
 * Calling examples:
 *    isValidPath("c:/test");      //returns true
 *    isValidPath("c:/te:t");      //returns false
 *    isValidPath("c:/te?t");      //returns false
 *    isValidPath("c/te*t");       //returns false
 *    isValidPath("good.txt");     //returns true
 *    isValidPath("not|good.txt"); //returns false
 *    isValidPath("not:good.txt"); //returns false
 * </pre>
 */
public static boolean isValidPath(String path) {
    try {
        Paths.get(path);
    } catch (InvalidPathException | NullPointerException ex) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Edit:
Note Ferrybig’s
comment : “The only disallowed character in a file name on Linux is the NUL character, this does work under Linux.”

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